New music venue planned for Fourth and Chestnut

12:52 PM,
Sep. 26, 2013

Wright-Taylor Building

Written by

Mark Boxley
| The Courier-Journal

Louisville Palace owner Live Nation will open a new music venue steps away from the theater south of Fourth and Chestnut streets in the Wright-Taylor building, CITY Properties announced Thursday morning.

The announcement was made at the ground breaking for a the Hilton Garden Inn Downtown at Clay Commons, also at Fourth and Chestnut. The hotel is expected to be open by October of 2014.

The new music venue will be able to hold 900. Between the Palace and the new music venue, Live Nation executive vice president Michael Grozier expects the venues to bring as many as 250,000 patrons to the area ...